Articles for category: Politics

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Czech President Milos Zeman

Zeman Takes Gloves Off As Runoff Election Nears

Prague, (CTK) – Aggressiveness has appeared in the campaign of Milos Zeman, who seeks re-election as Czech president and who faces former Science Academy head Jiri Drahos in the January 26-27 runoff, experts told CTK today, reacting to a new advertisement lashing at Drahos and appearing in two newspapers today.   Drahos’s campaign has shown ...

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Friends of Milos Zeman Launch Attack Ads Against Drahos

Prague, (CTK) – The Friends of Milos Zeman association has published an advertisement in some newspapers that express support for the re-election of incumbent Czech President Zeman and attack his rival candidate, academic Jiri Drahos, by saying he welcomes migration.   Zeman and former Academy of Sciences chairman Drahos will fight for presidency in the ...

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Overwhelming Support for Drahos in Chamber of Deputies

Prague, (CTK) – The majority of parties represented in the Czech Chamber of Deputies prefer former Academy of Sciences head Jiri Drahos to current President Milos Zeman, his contestant in the second round of the presidential election scheduled for January 26-27.   Drahos has been backed by the Civic Democrats (ODS), Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL), TOP ...

Petr Dubinsky

PM Babis Grilled Over Comments to Zeman to Dump Mynář and Nejedlý

For the first time in the role of the prime minister, Andrei Babis (ANO) experienced an interpellation on Thursday. MEP Věra Kovářová (STAN), for example, asked him why he advises President Milos Zeman to get rid of his colleagues until now.   Kovářová called her interpellation: “Bust in the Castle. Babiš questioned the castle chancellor Vratislav Mynář and Zeman’s adviser Martin ...

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President Zeman to Accept PM Babis’s Resignation on January 24

Prague, (CTK) – President Milos Zeman will receive the resignation of the government of Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) on January 24, as they agreed on over the phone today, presidential spokesman Jiri Ovcacek told journalists today.   “This morning, Zeman had a phone talk with Babis. They planned together that the resignation of the ...

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Milos Zeman

President Zeman Hospitalized Tuesday

Prague, (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman underwent a minor intervention in hospital on Tuesday because of a small inflammation, his spokesman told CTK today in reaction to the news released by the Aktualne.cz server that Zeman had a minor operation in his oral cavity in the Prague-Na Homolce hospital.   Zeman told Barrandov TV ...

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The Gloves Are Off – Zeman and Drahos Supporters Wage Fake News War

Prague, (CTK) – Various disinformation is being intentionally spread about former Academy of Sciences head Jiri Drahos and incumbent Czech President Milos Zeman on social networks before the presidential runoff that will be held in ten days.   The fake news on Drahos include him abusing little boys, stealing inventions from his colleagues and having ...

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Andrej Babis

European Parliament Committee to Review Babis’s Stork Nest Faud Case

Strasbourg, (CTK special correspondent) – The European Parliament’s (EP) Budgetary Control Committee will deal with the Capi hnizdo case of a suspected EU subsidy fraud, implicating Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO), Czech MEP Tomas Zdechovsky said today.   Next Tuesday, the committee will ask European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources Gunter Oettinger about ...

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Zeman Refuses to Accept Babis’s Minority Government Resignation

Prague, (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman will not accept the resignation of the minority government of Andrej Babis (ANO) this week, although he originally announced it, because of his busy schedule, his spokesman Jiri Ovcacek told CTK today.   “We failed to find any time in the president’s programme,” he said.   Ovcacek said ...